Pu-Shih Daniel Chen, Robert M. Gonyea, Shimon A. Sarraf, Allison BrckaLorenz,

Ali Korkmaz, Amber D. Lambert, Rick Shoup, Julie M. Williams

Abstract: Colleges and universities in the United States are being challenged to assess student outcomes and the quality of programs and services (McPherson and Shulenburger, 2006; Commission on the Future of Higher Education, 2006). One of the more widely used sources of evidence is student engagement as measured by a cluster of student engagement surveys administered by the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University. They include the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and its companion projects: the Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement, Faculty Survey of Student Engagement, and Law School Survey of Student Engagement. The University of Texas–Austin hosts the two-year variation of the NSSE, the Community College Survey of Student Engagement.

With more than thirteen hundred colleges and universities using NSSE, many institutional researchers may benefit from guidance about how to understand and use these data. This chapter shares practical tips and recommendations for the analysis and interpretation of NSSE data. We divided the chapter into three parts. The first offers six overarching tips and recommendations for working with student engagement data. We then discuss considerations for the analysis of multiple years of student engagement data. Finally, we describe how effect sizes can be used and interpreted to make student engagement results more meaningful.

Although we use NSSE data and examples throughout the chapter, institutional researchers can almost always extrapolate the suggestions we provide to other student experience surveys. Instead of technical discussions of such topics as scale construction and factor analysis, we focus on practical, concrete data manipulations and applications for the analytical work of the institutional research professional.

.总 结：

1、在美国学院和大学的学生评估结果和程序的质量和服务正在受到挑战 (麦克弗森Shulenburger,2006;未来的高等教育委员会,2006年)。广泛应用的证据来源之一是学生接触的一群学生参与调查由印第安纳大学高等教育研究中心。其中包括学生参与的全国性调查(NSSE)及其配套项目：刚步入大学的学生参与的调查中,学生参与教师调查,法学院学生参与的调查。德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的学生参与的社区学院的为期两年NSSE的调查。

2、使用NSSE有超过一千三百所学院和大学,许多机构研究人员可能受益于指导如何理解和使用这些数据。本章将介绍实用技巧和建议NSSE数据的分析和解释。我们将这一章分为三个部分。第一个提供六个技巧和建议处理学生接触数据；然后，我们讨论考虑多年的学生参与数据分析；最后，我们描述如何使用尺度效应和解释为使学生接触的结果更有意义。

3、虽然在这一章我们使用NSSE数据和例子,机构人员几乎总是可以推断建议我们提供给其他学生体验调查，而不是技术讨论等主题规模建设和因子分析,我们专注于实际,具体数据操作和应用程序的分析工作机构研究专业。

来源：NEW DIRECTIONS FOR INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH. Spring 2009, DOI: 10.1002/ir.285